How cool is this old pic sis? Check where it is!
Yep! Sandhurst St in Kingsbury in the old days....
Here it is today!
Greg and I went there today..to Kingsbury Station, then to Sandhurst Road...talk about the memories flooding back.
It was so weird!
I remember it all as clear as when i was there when i was 15! The train station, the shop across the road from the station that used to sell potato croquettes!
The shop isn't there anymore, it's a Kebab place so of course, we had a donor kebab and salad there for lunch. Very yummy too.
I was looking forward to walking down Berkeley Street, into Princes Street to find that old thatched house at the end of Sandhurst Road. But it's gone! Well, the house is still there but the thatched roof has gone. And that was such a vivid memory too.....
Gee, it was weird walking down the street. I spend so many hours strolling up and down and around the neighbourhood in the 6 weeks i was there while Annie was at work, and Mum was on conference!
It was a time when Annie had just returned from a safari Africa and Mum and i went to visit her. I was 15 and Annie was 21. I was so naive! I thought she was so wise! And yet, in hindsite we were both so young.
And still are...hehe (I still think Annie is so wise!)
And the most weird thing..well not weird, but it does put things in perspective now, is that Mum was YOUNGER than i am now!!
So, when i think about it, that time in London, was a time when we were ALL young!!
Talk about having a reminisce. I remembered Anne and Gary....Greg.....to me, they were such hippies!
Gee....
That was THIRTY YEARS AGO!!!
I was SO YOUNG when i was there.
And I remember my thoughts from that period as clearly as a bell. Is that scary or what!
It was fun to go back there...
The train trip there showed a lot of slums..and grafitti and the area looked harsh and run down.
The little area surrounding the street was full of cheering (must have been a football team winning around there) and the street running by the train station had lots of fast food and internet cafe's and even a subway.
Once we got to the street and i'd gotten over the loss of the thatched room on that house i really liked, it looked quite pretty and the houses were all from the same period...bay windows...and arched keyhole shaped frontages.
And all uniform..
At least that house wasn't demolished....
What a fun day!
